Comment by 🖥️ mrrobinhood5
Re: "Preview of a Gemini browser for ESP32 😊"
that's awesome. what's that emulator you're using?
2024-12-11 · 1 year ago
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💀 requiem [OP/mod] · 2024-12-11 at 07:25:
It’s Wokwi — I only rediscovered it not long ago and I am mightily impressed by it. The free tier took me quite far, ended up getting the “Hobbyist” subscription because I wanted the code private until it goes on my sourcehut.
https://wokwi.com/
🏕️ Yretek · 2024-12-11 at 17:39:
Great!, and great capsule too
💀 requiem [OP/mod] · 2024-12-11 at 21:36:
@HanzBrix: I think that is easiest done under Linux, and not on an ESP32 but something like a somethingPi Zero. I have such a project going as well, but very much in its infancy.
Something like this: https://share.cleanshot.com/17CKTfbl
💀 requiem [OP/mod] · 2024-12-11 at 21:36:
@Yretek Thanks! :)
💀 requiem [OP/mod] · 2024-12-12 at 20:44:
An update: I managed to get LVGL + micropython to work in a simulator. Alas not in wokwi. But I’ve got some better typography and text working. I would probably be able render some of the text as links by converting them to buttons. Then I would need to marry the wokwi simulation with the lvgl simulation, probably on some real hardware.
— https://exquisite.social/@rqm/113641452958027199
💀 requiem [OP/mod] · 2024-12-12 at 20:48:
@hanzbrix I don’t I’m afraid. The tricky bit was getting the display to work. I fortunately found some stuff on GitHub that I could leverage.
⛵️ olav · 2024-12-12 at 21:38:
I would love to code a Gemini browser on [tulip.computer] at some point. It is micropython with lvgl.
💀 requiem [OP/mod] · 2024-12-12 at 21:53:
I’ll share the code when it’s ready. But you can get started easily — you can download the Micropython Unix port with LVGL baked in from the LVGL website and start coding right away!
💀 requiem [OP/mod] · 2024-12-12 at 21:58:
@hanzbrix I used the Orange Pi Zero and it needed device tree overlays and xorg.conf files. I know nothing about that stuff so it was good to find appropriate files on GitHub.
awsom
can I do thin with arduino un or ots to weak ?
can't wait to see it running on a m5paper!
💀 requiem [OP/mod] · Jan 14 at 21:01:
Ameen: You can probably write something like this. My only problem is, I lost the source code for this. :(
Original Post
Preview of a Gemini browser for ESP32 😊 — I started working on a little ESP32 based Gemini browser in Micropython! Check out the link for a video of the progress so far. It can make simple Gemini requests over TLS, and render the contents to a 2.8in TFT screen with some basic typography. Might add an ASCII-art-to-Bitmap proxy into the mix; so I can render ASCII art properly to the screen, but offloading the computation from the ESP32 to some outside service. Pretty cool, for parts you are...